Silver mines lure speculators, adventuresses, and seasoned miners to a small Montana mining town in the 1880s

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Wheeler, Richard S.

United States

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Goldfield

In the wake of an early twentieth-century gold mine discovery in southwestern Nevada, mobs of fortune-seeking individuals rush to Goldfield, including a hard-working prospector, a horse trader, a geology professor, and a newspaper editor.

Ulysses McQueen leaves his pregnant wife to search for gold at the same time ex-soldier Stephen Jarvis begins his journey to the West coast, and the paths of the two finally cross in California, by which time they are both changed men.

Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush

The Buffalo Commons

A novel pitting a family of farmers and ranchers and a visionary billionaire against each other in a battle for land, the environment, and ultimately the fate of the high plains dramatizes the impact of new ideas on accepted ways of life

In 1826, Barnaby Skye, a twenty-year-old pressed seaman, deserts his Royal Navy frigate at Fort Vancouver, escapes the minions of the Navy and the Hudson's Bay Company, and makes his way down the trackless Columbia River country alone.

Rendezvous: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West 9)

Set against the backdrop of 1880s Denver, a colorful novel relates the experiences of Homer Peabody, a hapless bachelor lawyer; Cornelia Kimbrough, who is trapped in a miserable marriage to a tycoon; Dixie Ball, a farm girl who strikes it rich, and Yves Poulenc, a young poet.

Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age

Young editor Sam Flint starts a newspaper in Payday, a paradisical frontier town, earning him friends throughout the community, but when the paper lures the wrong kind of settlers into town, Sam finds himself in an all-out war for control of the once peaceful Payday

Flint's Gift (Silver City Sentinel)

Flint's Truth

Frontier journalist Sam Flint knows there is a story of corruption and greed in his small town of Oro Blanco, but he may not be able to print it before the big mining bosses run him out of town, or worse

Sam Flint, a committed Old West journalist, returns with a dangerous attempt to start an honest newspaper as competition for the corrupt and powerful Silver City Democrat in the newly formed state of Colorado.

Flint's Honor: D (Sam Flint Novels)

During a trip back to the village of his Crow wife, Victoria, she is abducted by a deadly band of Blackfeet, and Skye must risk his life to rescue her, following a trail that takes him back to Canada, where he is still wanted by the British Navy for deserting his ship, four years ago. 10,000 first printing.

Dark Passage: A Barnaby Skye Novel (Skye's West)

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